Afterword

A good day to every fan of GA
Publishing. And to those of you who already know me from other
various works, my thanks as always. Annoyingly, rightfully,
magnificently visiting you, it’s the author Mikawa Ghost.

Thank you very much for picking up
“Tomodachi no Imouto Ga Ore ni Dake Uzai.” You know, I always
have trouble deciding what I want to write in my afterword. Do people
read the afterword before the actual book? Or do they read it
afterwards? People differ greatly in the smallest of ways. With that
in mind, I can’t in good faith go into detail about the contents of
this novel. So instead I would like to tell you a story of when we
were deciding on the title of “Tomodachi no Imouto Ga Ore ni Dake
Uzai,” or “ImoZa” for short.

It happened during a hot summer in
2018. The crickets were making their presences known outside, the
engines of the cars going by were roaring to their heart’s content,
and I was sitting in an antique café. The professional editor from
GA Publishing, Nuru-san, was sitting with me, and I told him the
following:

“Recently, novels with grown-up
protagonists have become rather popular…”

“That’s right.”

“Then how about an office love? Both
the protagonist and the heroine are working members of society—a
rom-com like that should do very well. It’ll have an office lady
heroine. There will be a picture of her in a suit and tights on the
cover.”

“That sounds good.”

“So, this is what I had been thinking
about. ‘My girlfriend and Kouhai and superior are all working too
hard.’”

“That sounds fun. Then please work in
that direction.”

One week later.

“Hello. I have the design here.”

“Thank you very much. Then let’s
take a look immediately… Hm?”

Having opened the small 1KB file,
Editor Nuru-san tilted her head.

“There’s nothing but the title in
here? ‘My friend’s little sister?’ What about the office lady
heroine?”

“No matter I long I thought about it,
I could only see a difficult future ahead of me if I wanted to write
realistically about an office.”

“I see.”

“After all, putting lucky pervert
moments in a modern office setting would only come off as sexual
harassment, right? For the main character to avoid said sexual
harassment and still become closer to the heroine is much too hard of
a task. I would like to develop a heroine who is a bit more within
the protagonist’s reach.”

“And that’s why you came up a
friend’s little sister. Neither a childhood friend nor an actual
little sister.”

“Please think about it. She often
comes over to play, she tries to seduce him with her legs, she lets
her guard down inside the living room, she sits there reading manga
and listening to music.”

“I see.”

“And if that girl were a super-duper
beauty?”

“That sounds nice.”

“That’s what I mean.”

“Hmm. However, what exactly is the
role of that friend’s little sister? What kind of personality does
she have?”

“About that.”

HAHAHAHA, I started laughing. To be
completely honest, I hadn’t thought of anything except for the
charm of her being so close to the protagonist.

“You see, recently, rather unexpected character traits have become popular.”

“Is that so?”

“Having them act annoying at first
makes them seem rather lovable in the end, for example.”

“Ahhh, that has been quite popular
recently. Being annoying.”

“I see…?”

After being told that, I wrote down the
title that flew into my head at that moment.

“Tomodachi no Imouto Ga Ore ni Dake
Uzai.”

“…That’s it!!!”

Both of us screamed out loud the second
we saw that title.

And just like that, the title was born.
Shortly afterwards the characters were born, and soon the volume was
finished. So what did you think of it? It would be great if you all
enjoyed it~ Please continue to watch over the past, present, and
future of Akiteru, Iroha, Mashio, Ozu, and Sumire.

It’s time to give my thanks to the
people who helped.

Tomari-sensei! Thank you so much for
the greatest annoying heroine! The character design, cover,
illustrations… Everything is perfect. I hope than we can bring this
series to great success together. I’m looking forward to working
with you!

To the editor Nuru-san, everyone
involved from GA Publishing, everyone who made supportive comments
from book stores all over the country, and to everyone else related
to the release of “ImoUza,” I cannot thank you enough!

And of course, to everyone kind enough
to pick up this piece of work, I love you so much!